DAYS OF OUR LIVES

This blog has spent at least three years just looking for the remote control.

(Thanks to Mollenkamp)

Comments

[reneviht]

Instead, it revealed we spend four months of our lifetimes playing computer games.

That doesn't make sense. Shouldn't it be "four months per year" instead of "four months per life?"

[insomniac]

I knew I should have asked for my 16 hours of orgasms on the installment plan instead of up front!

But, on the other hand I'll never forget April 22, 1983....

[Guin]

Why in the world do they count "playing with children" in the same category as ironing? I do not iron anything, but I certainly spend many hours playing with my kids!

[Sarcasmo]

Do we really trust the results of a study performed by someone who made the following statement: computers weren't around a decade or so ago

[queensbee]

who needs sex when we have the web...........

[Aunt Nancy]

insom - ROTFL!! I just spewed Diet Mountain Dew all over my keyboard.

[Kilmeny]

Makes sense. I know I've spent three years of my life hiding the remote control.

[MOTW]

Likewise, researchers have a lot of time on their hands.

[Dave (not Barry)]

Wonder how much time I've spent on Dave's blog? If it ends up in the long run being the same amount as spent on orgasms, I don't want you getting any funny ideas, Dave.

[nobody]

Dave(notBarry), Dave's always getting funny ideas. It's his job, even when he's on hiatus.

[rita]

Guin, it's because a man made the survey. You know, cooking, cleaning, ironing, playing with the kids, it's all woman's work.

[Sallyacious]

Education doesn't seem to take up much time either. Only one year and ten months is spent in the classroom.

It's quite clear I didn't take part in this survey. I just finished degree #3, and I make no guarantees I will be stopping there.

[Sallyacious]

On the other hand, I've spent far less time than most at work...

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

This is stupid, IMO!

It clearly does NOT take individuality into account. I personally stopped ironing in the 70's, and have never looked back.

*zips out totally disgusted with scientists*

[Sarah]

How can it be that the average person spends only a year and ten months of their life getting an education? I've been in school for nine months out of the year for about thirteen years now- surely that's more than two years total.

[Mad "engaged to weasel" Scientist]

*tries to woo Elaenor back to the Mad Scientist side*

Come on we aren't all that bad. Maybe this is accurate for Germans, but I don't think it holds up for Americans. And I have spent the last 6.5 years of my life just on one degree so I find their estimate on education insane.

[Ivory Bill Woodpecker]

Da Mad Scientist's site mentions "cat boogers", which WBAGNFARB!

[no mathematician]

Sarah -
You're right. Are they going by credit hours or actual hours?

full schedule in school ~= 40 hours per week
40 hours/week * 9 months ~= 360 hours a year
360 / 24 = 15 days
appx. #of days in a year spent on education.

Now, their model:
1 yr, 10 mo = 665 days

If you divide 665 by 15, that's 44.333 years spent getting an education?

[Bella]

Another case of people with too much time on their hands... this time, environmentalists.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/10/20/sonar.whales.ap/index.html

[Eleanor]

Memo to Mad Scientist:

You're OK, they're not. :)

[U.O]

... um ... how much time is that in metric?

[BLT]

I did a little quick math, and at 6 hrs a day, 180 days a year for 12 years, a person spends just under a year & a half to go from 1st grade thru high school.

[U.O]

BLT --

Well, OK ... but, did you count recess and gym class?